Ancient History 4: Ulysses' introduction to Nausicaa. At the sight of the hero soiled with black mud, / All flee, but Nausicaa, in her naïve modesty; / Blushingly says to him, without quitting her laundry: / Which God, noble stranger, leads you to my wash-house? (Unpublished translation by Mr. Casimir Delavigne)

I try so hard to please Ayesha, to make jokes. To win her back, I even bought a computer, but..

Ancient History 26: The Augean stables. For a proud hero to make of himself a cleaner, / Is, for Hercules, difficult to swallow, / But as a proverb says: / One does not argue about sewers or colours (Unpublished pun by Mr. Delessert)

Ancient History 26: The Augean stables. For a proud hero to make of himself a cleaner, / Is, for Hercules, difficult to swallow, / But as a proverb says: / One does not argue about sewers or colours (Unpublished pun by Mr. Delessert)

Sentakunoshikata amarimondehaikenai

Conjugal Manners 44: Inconvenient to dream aloud: I dreamed... I called Victor! You lied to me, you old gherkin, I couldn't call Victor, because you'd named him Boniface!

Ancient History 7: Ulysses' return

Ancient History 7: Ulysses' return

Women Socialists 7: Oh! You are my husband, oh! you are the master... well, I have the right to bundle you out of your home... Jeanne Derouin proved that to me yesterday evening!... go and explain yourself to her!..

PASTORALS 40: －Needless to say, I've got to cross this devil of a small wood to get home... I'm angry at having stayed so late at neighbour Rigolard's so as to make a hundred at piquet... if I'd thought I'd have made only half a hundred

Bathers 26: －Look out, Gargouillet, there's the master going by with his wife; we should wash our hair and hang the soap. －Thank you, I've just finished with it

PEOPLE OF THE LAW 24: －What a pity that charming little woman didn't ask me to defend her... how I would have argued that her husband is a rascal!..

The Birth (Dedicated to Tatsumi Hijikata)

The Birth (Dedicated to Tatsumi Hijikata)

The Birth (Dedicated to Tatsumi Hijikata)

The Birth (Dedicated to Tatsumi Hijikata)

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 24: －Did he need to smoke pipes[,] him there[,] to get a coloured face!

IN CHINA 21: To think that there is what the French call Chinese!..

Childish Acts 4: In winter it's silly to have children dressed up as nicely as this!..

News 112: You’re wrong to want to post up that...advertisement..

PARISIANS TYPES 11: You argue like a suger cane! －And you, like a suger beet!

Ancient History 6: Penelope's nights. Of her absent husband the adorable profile, / Always shines like a star to her gentle eyes / But to drag on for three years, and her trick and her web / ...She must have had an intrepid thread (Odessy Ch[apter] II. Indiscreet translation by Mr. Villemain)

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 1: A VISIT TO THE SALON. To be sure, all sculptors are smutty!..

SMALL-SCALE SPECULATORS 3: －And to think that we're forbidden from going in there to do our little bits of business too... those men! no respect at all for the fair sex!..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 19: THE CLAQUER: By Jingo; we're going to need to liven it up this evening, a new play in three acts; the comic wants me to burst out laughing, the heroine wants me to cry, the author wants me to stamp up to the old heavy mother, who wants me to applaud her... there's ... work for you